ICD-10-CM 2021:
Prep for Lab- and Pathology-Relevant Diagnosis Codes
Published on Tue Sep 15, 2020
Kick off new diagnoses starting Oct. 1. Your lab needs to review the broad sweep of ICD-10-CM changes every year, and now’s the time. Starting Oct. 1, you’re facing 490 code additions, 58 deletions, and 47 revisions to the code set. Significance: Diagnostic testing impacts medical diagnosis in wide-ranging disease processes. Clinical labs must report current ICD-10-CM codes narrated by [...]